Posts Tagged ‘ coolness! ’

Shopping spree today! Three hours in my favorite thrift shop yielded some awesome treasures. The kid has new clothes and I have this. It’s called the Tingler. Laugh if you want. It’s awesome. Which is good, because I’m so tired.
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One of the panels at Comicon was called “Bishounen Paradise.” After making certain there would be pictures (if not actual bishies), a few of my friends and I attended. In an after-panel trivia contest (it was very easy), I won these. Cool, you say? Why yes. They are. However, they get better. Once a...
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And so do alligators. And it looks like dinosaurs did too. In modern birds, the lungs’ gas exchange units are not alveoli, but tubes known as “parabronchi,” through which air flows in one direction before exiting the lung. Farmer says this lung design helps birds fly at altitudes that would “render mammals comatose.” From...
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ZOMG, I love science.
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okay, imagine this… Deep in the night, unnoticed by the sleeping countryside, the lake rumbles. A sudden fountain shoots hundreds of feet in the air, and the once-still lake erupts in waves taller than trees. From the water a cold mist arises. Creeping down valleys, the mist engulfs and swallows village after village, leaving...
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